Yes, but doing two chicks in one night is pretty sleazy no matter how you slice it. I've done it once. Never again. I felt terrible...hell, I still feel terrible about doing that.
It depends. With the Army at least, we buy laptops locally for use in our TOC (headquarters), but the laptops used for particular field functions are 'fielded' by central Army organizations - one in particular called PEO C3T is the blanket headquarters for various programs that send out 'systems' for use in the field, including ruggedized laptops. A lot of the C3T programs will field Toughbooks regardless of what we think, because it reduces their long-term service costs after the fielding. Locally, we may purchase Dells because the local purchasing people are looking for bang for the buck.
Bottom line is that if we can get away without buying even a theoretically ruggedized system (Dell), we will. Most of our laptops are E6500s and Dell Lat 830s. I discourage ruggedized systems because of the excess cost and limited ROI in most cases. Also, experience has taught that even the most ruggedized system is not soldier-proof.
Apparently so. We have a lot of toughbooks and the Dell version thereof (XFRD6300, actually). The Dells are pieces of shit. The Panasonics are less POS but slower and harder to work with - poor ergonomic design. None of them are fixed in place, though. They move a lot and get broken keyboards, water damage, and scoring of the screen via sand. Not to mention dead optical drives from the 'moondust' common in the Middle East (I saw more in Kuwait than in Iraq, honestly).
The 'throw more hardware at it' excuse for MS bloat is fine and well until the twin forces of budgetary and infrastructure constraints rear their heads.
Budgetary constraints are self-explanatory. Infrastructure constraints revolve around power and HVAC mostly. I'd also raise a green concern: if Microsoft solutions require additional hardware with power requirements of its own, above and beyond what other solutions would require, it is clearly environmentally unfriendly.
Everything has bias. Stop even attempting to claim that anything is objective. People use bias as a way to attack the value of what is being said. The truth is that everything said or written carries a spin intended by the original author. Whether this affects the veracity of what is said is an entirely separate matter.
BTW, you're full of crap in general, but the above was just a direct rebuttal. You don't know an iota of what you speak about. Once a policy commitment is made, they don't have a choice but to cover you, barring negligent activity, which is a high bar. They can fiddle with policy terms, but you can sue them and most likely win in most environments. If you are a member of a group health insurance policy, they literally cannot drop you individually. They have to drop the whole group, which is one of the reasons why such groups exist, aside from spreading the risk.
A policy suit is basically just a lawsuit asserting breach of terms of an insurance policy. Consult a lawyer when the time comes, they will explain (and probably think you are an informed client at that point). Policies are minefields of legalese because of these, but just because an insurer can write a lot of boilerplate will not absolve them from a good faith interpretation of the policy's terms.
The problem with the Olivettis was not that they sucked. They were reasonably solid. It's just that in 1986, selling an XT clone for exorbitant prices because it had the AT&T Death Star logo on it was a bad business strategy. IBM did the same thing with the 1987 PS/2 line and look where they ended up.
My grandfather and uncle both worked as engineers for Western Electric (AT&T subsidiary). WE built all those pre-1984 phone handsets, for instance. In any event, my grandfather took his retirement at that time (he'd been employed there since the late 1930s). My uncle spent the next year crowing about how, due to the AT&T breakup, AT&T was going to make a killing in the systems business due to Unix and their vaunted engineering capability.
Anyone who used an Olivetti AT&T PC knows how that turned out.
AT&T sucked at marketing. They were a regulated utility for most of their lifespan and knew how to cut your nuts off in true Cartman fashion when you needed leased lines or some kind of regulated service, but selling anything on the open market? Don't make me laugh.
While I agree that Page is iconic with the Les Paul, he has played many other guitars. In the early Zeppelin days, he was mostly seen with his Telecaster and his Danelectro. The double-neck from Stairway is a Gibson SG. He has played a Strat periodically when he wanted a particular sound.
That said, anytime in the last 25 years that you've seen him play, it'll either be a Les Paul or the SG double neck.
Sigh. You're wrong. Standard form 312 is perfectly enforceable, as many people who have been prosecuted and sued into oblivion have found out to their despair.
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Not religion, I just felt the other side of the situation later on.
IAWTP. With NoScript on and off, the web is a totally different place.
Why, because I hit 40 and regret being a sleaze when I was younger?
Yes, but doing two chicks in one night is pretty sleazy no matter how you slice it. I've done it once. Never again. I felt terrible ...hell, I still feel terrible about doing that.
I want to know what the Hangul is for "Zerg rush".
It depends. With the Army at least, we buy laptops locally for use in our TOC (headquarters), but the laptops used for particular field functions are 'fielded' by central Army organizations - one in particular called PEO C3T is the blanket headquarters for various programs that send out 'systems' for use in the field, including ruggedized laptops. A lot of the C3T programs will field Toughbooks regardless of what we think, because it reduces their long-term service costs after the fielding. Locally, we may purchase Dells because the local purchasing people are looking for bang for the buck.
Bottom line is that if we can get away without buying even a theoretically ruggedized system (Dell), we will. Most of our laptops are E6500s and Dell Lat 830s. I discourage ruggedized systems because of the excess cost and limited ROI in most cases. Also, experience has taught that even the most ruggedized system is not soldier-proof.
Apparently so. We have a lot of toughbooks and the Dell version thereof (XFRD6300, actually). The Dells are pieces of shit. The Panasonics are less POS but slower and harder to work with - poor ergonomic design. None of them are fixed in place, though. They move a lot and get broken keyboards, water damage, and scoring of the screen via sand. Not to mention dead optical drives from the 'moondust' common in the Middle East (I saw more in Kuwait than in Iraq, honestly).
The 'throw more hardware at it' excuse for MS bloat is fine and well until the twin forces of budgetary and infrastructure constraints rear their heads.
Budgetary constraints are self-explanatory. Infrastructure constraints revolve around power and HVAC mostly. I'd also raise a green concern: if Microsoft solutions require additional hardware with power requirements of its own, above and beyond what other solutions would require, it is clearly environmentally unfriendly.
Show me the perfect person who never lets their personal view leach into what they are saying.
Everything has bias. Stop even attempting to claim that anything is objective. People use bias as a way to attack the value of what is being said. The truth is that everything said or written carries a spin intended by the original author. Whether this affects the veracity of what is said is an entirely separate matter.
BTW, you're full of crap in general, but the above was just a direct rebuttal. You don't know an iota of what you speak about. Once a policy commitment is made, they don't have a choice but to cover you, barring negligent activity, which is a high bar. They can fiddle with policy terms, but you can sue them and most likely win in most environments. If you are a member of a group health insurance policy, they literally cannot drop you individually. They have to drop the whole group, which is one of the reasons why such groups exist, aside from spreading the risk.
It's not hard OR expensive to file a policy suit, i've done it on at least two occasions and it happens every day.
A policy suit is basically just a lawsuit asserting breach of terms of an insurance policy. Consult a lawyer when the time comes, they will explain (and probably think you are an informed client at that point). Policies are minefields of legalese because of these, but just because an insurer can write a lot of boilerplate will not absolve them from a good faith interpretation of the policy's terms.
Actually, there is this thing called a 'policy suit' and you should keep it in mind if any insurer tries to 'cut you off'.
They usually quake in their boots just at the mention of same.
With a name like "Aino", is it an advert for Preparation H?
Marxist theory is debunked on a daily basis.
Next.
The problem with the Olivettis was not that they sucked. They were reasonably solid. It's just that in 1986, selling an XT clone for exorbitant prices because it had the AT&T Death Star logo on it was a bad business strategy. IBM did the same thing with the 1987 PS/2 line and look where they ended up.
My grandfather and uncle both worked as engineers for Western Electric (AT&T subsidiary). WE built all those pre-1984 phone handsets, for instance. In any event, my grandfather took his retirement at that time (he'd been employed there since the late 1930s). My uncle spent the next year crowing about how, due to the AT&T breakup, AT&T was going to make a killing in the systems business due to Unix and their vaunted engineering capability.
Anyone who used an Olivetti AT&T PC knows how that turned out.
AT&T sucked at marketing. They were a regulated utility for most of their lifespan and knew how to cut your nuts off in true Cartman fashion when you needed leased lines or some kind of regulated service, but selling anything on the open market? Don't make me laugh.
Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan and the entirety of MoveOn are about as wacky as your examples. I don't see many Democrats disavowing them.
The only conclusion that I can draw from the silence on the actual upgrade is that it's something we wouldn't like.
It should impress you with how much I despise leftists that I would deign to be even remotely associated with the people you mention. But it's true.
While I agree that Page is iconic with the Les Paul, he has played many other guitars. In the early Zeppelin days, he was mostly seen with his Telecaster and his Danelectro. The double-neck from Stairway is a Gibson SG. He has played a Strat periodically when he wanted a particular sound.
That said, anytime in the last 25 years that you've seen him play, it'll either be a Les Paul or the SG double neck.
...15 years ago. They change the names and claim it as unique research?
Any program that required the knowledge imparted by a keyboard overlay to use was pretty lame.
The only good use of a keyboard overlay I ever saw was for the Microprose flight simulators like F-19 (later F-117A), F-15 Strike Eagle II/III
Sigh. You're wrong. Standard form 312 is perfectly enforceable, as many people who have been prosecuted and sued into oblivion have found out to their despair.